Amjad sabri qawwal tajdar e haram mp310/17/2023 ![]() The Sabri house in Karachi was full of the wheeze of portable harmoniums, the patter of drums and the joyous, repetitive mantras of qawwali, the songs of the millions of South Asian followers of the mystical Sufi strain of Islam. His ancestors had done so too, right back to the time of Mian Tansen, a favourite musician at the Mughal court, who received 100,000 gold coins for his first performance. His uncle, Maqbool Ahmed Sabri, sang that way. HIS father, Ghulam Farid Sabri, sang that way.
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